| Title | Enhancing image contrast using coherent states and photon number resolving detectors |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2010 |
| Authors | A. J. Pearlman, A. Ling, E. A. Goldschmidt, C. F. Wildfeuer, J. Fan, and A. L. Migdall |
| Journal | Optics Express |
| Volume | 18 |
| Pagination | 6033 |
| Date Published | mar |
| ISSN | 1094-4087 |
| Keywords | 2010, Photon counting, Photon statistics |
| Abstract | We experimentally map the transverse profile of diffractionlimited beams using photon-number-resolving detectors.We observe strong compression of diffracted beam profiles for high detected photon number. This effect leads to higher contrast than a conventional irradiance profile between two Airy disk-beams separated by the Rayleigh criterion. |
| URL | http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-18-6-6033 |
